Cemetery Junction

 The movie ‘Cemetery Junction’ is one of complications because of its various amounts of genre, characters and more.

There is not one genre of this movie, but many, these include: Action, Coming of age, Comedy, Drama and Romance.

Cemetery Junction’s characters had strong and distinct personalities; however, despite this they did not leave a huge impression on me.

The movie is about three young men in the working class who come from Cemetery Junction (A run-down suburb in Reading) whom each have different ambitions. The character ‘Freddie’ wants to have a well-paid job and leave the working class for good, whereas the other two main characters (Bruce and Snork) want to stay where they are in the working class, and do nothing other than fight and meet girls.

When ‘Freddie’ meets his ex-girlfriend, Julie, problems occur and each boy has to make life-changing decisions.

I found the plot dull over-all (however, this could be because it wasn’t the type of movie I usually enjoy watching) and found that Cemetery Junction completely under-estimated the issues it raised. The film as a hybrid did not work well, for it seemed that it was too eager to please a wide audience instead of targeting a large majority of people, it seems to give off the impression of a cult film as I can’t imagine many people to enjoy it, but can see a very few who have complete praise for it. The movie was hard to put my interest in because it seemed so boring and predictable.

However, on the plus side, Cemetery Junction did have a few positive points. For instance, the cast did an exceedingly good job at playing their parts and for a movie directed by a comedian, it did display excellent examples of drama and proved to be slightly though-provoking.

Conclusively, I would not recommend that you watch Cemetery Junction unless you have some serious time to kill. I would rate it a 4 out of 10, and suggest to Ricky Gervais that he sticks to comedy.

The top 10 'Horror movie villains' of all time

From 'The Creature' to 'Jigsaw', horror villains have been around since 1895, in the first horror movie "Le Manoir de Diable" (Or "House of the Devil). But between the year 1895 and 2011, who have been the top ten horror villains?

10. Norman Bates 
Psycho- Alfred Hitchcock.
 Norman Bates is a psychotic character, and all due to the fact that he was violently abused as a child by his mother, 'Norma'. I'm not going to include too many spoilers, but could you really get much creepier than a grown man killing a woman whilst wearing his mothers clothes? 








09. Jaws
Jaws - Steven Spielburg 
 "I think we're gonna need a bigger boat". I know what you're thinking. Jaws? A horror film? But through the eyes of the viewer at the time of it's release, I can guarantee that it must be pretty frightening. Jaws managed to make people scared of the ocean for quite some time, I'd say that was a pretty successful villain!
 







08. Dr. Carl Hill
 Re-Animator - Stuart Gordon

For those who have seen 'Re-animator' will know of the two main villains. Out of the two, I find Dr. Carl Hill far more superior, but what could be more sci-fi in a horror than a man making an army of lobotomised, ressurected corpses?



07. Pennywise the clown
Stephen King's IT 

Although the movie-villain isn't as terrifying as he is in the novel, he still turns out to be pretty horrific. If you want to traumatise your children, then Pennywise is the villain for you! 






06. Hannibal Lector
Silence of the lambs - Jonathon Demme

Dr. Hannibal Lector, a brilliant psychiatrist- and a cannibalist serial killer. - Starring Anthony Hopkins
  





05. Jigsaw
Saw - James Wan

Cancer patient 'John' has a dying wish- to punish those who have sinned or done wrong. Using various traps and tricks, John's villain-ego 'Jigsaw' tests those wrong-doers to see if they think their life is worth torture. 





04. Dracula

Everyone knows Count Dracula, the transylvanian vampire that started it all, without him there would be no 'Lost boys', and all vampire movies! (Although it's a good thing in the case of 'Twilight')









03. Jason Vorhees
Friday the 13th 

Jason Vorhees is a pure psychological threat, scaring many audiences for many years. Watch out for the hockey mask and the machette, Jason's in town!  









02. Michael Myers
Halloween - John 

Inspired by mental patients, Mike Myers seems to be terrifying simply because of his link to reality. Psychotic since 6 years old, Mike Myers is the second best horror villain, EVER. 
 







01. Freddie Krueger 
Nightmare on Elm Street - Wes Craven

Give anyone the question, "How would you survive a typical horror movie?" And most people would give you similar answers, that sound completely sane and might actually be the key to survival. But how do you kill the villain, when the villain is in your nightmares? Freddie does not hesitate to scare the living hell out of anyone who watches him, including myself. He is definitely the scariest horror villain of all time.